creased's Usage Examples:

Modern technology has also increased the range of baby monitors and decreased the effects of interference from other systems, such as cordless telephones that are in the vicinity of the baby monitor.

Areas of increased oxygen flow: - Middle frontal gyrus; Sharpens a person's focus on a goal.

His principal fault was a want of tenacity and resolution; his tendency to unguarded language undoubtedly increased the number of his enemies.

The confused and legendary notices of the journeyings of 1 These were at first simple huts, built for the mendicants in some grove of palm-trees as a retreat during the rainy season; but they gradually increased in splendour and magnificence till the decay of Buddhism set in.

The principal uses of rape oil are for lubrication and lighting; but since the introduction of mineral oils for both these purposes the importance of rape has considerably decreased.

This upheaval - the consequences of which have been felt even within the historic period, by the drainage of the formerly impracticable marshes of Novgorod and at the head of the Gulf of Finland - together with the destruction of forests, contributes towards a decrease of precipitation over Russia and towards increased shallowness of her rivers.

The increased economic viability of smaller countries.

latter-day Luddites and we are not opposed, in principle, to new methods leading to increased food production.

Methotrexate affects spermatogenesis and oogenesis during the period of its administration which may result in decreased fertility.

A speech, denouncing the projected incorporation of Schleswig and Holstein with Denmark, delivered in the Chamber of Baden on the 6th of February 1845, spread his fame beyond the limits of his own state, and his popularity was increased by his expulsion from Prussia on the occasion of a journey to Stettin.

The resolutions of the Lambeth Conferences have never been regarded as synodical decrees, but their weight has increased with each conference.

Meanwhile, in spite of the matricular contributions, the calls on imperial finance had steadily increased, and up to 1908 were continually met to a large extent by loans, involving a continual growth of the imperial debt, which in 1907 amounted to 3643 millions of marks.

Synonyms:

turn up, fold, pucker, crumple, knit, cockle, scrunch, ruckle, ruck up, rumple, fold up, crisp, crinkle, wrinkle, scrunch up, ruck,

Antonyms:

disintegrate, open, arrange, stay, unfold,